‘Serpents and reptiles reach the heights of mountains and rocks, while the most fiery of steeds can never climb there.’Baron d’Holbach’s 1776 Essay on the Art of Crawling is a delicious satire on the sycophancy and self-abasement rife in the courts of Europe. A penetrating account of the workings of power that applies as much to today’s courtiers as it did to those of the eighteenth century, it also makes a compelling case for the value of moral independence and personal dignity.
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Paul Henri Thiry (1723-89), better known as Baron d’Holbach, was a major thinker of the Enlightenment period and, in his treatise The System of Nature, the author of one of that era’s most devastating attacks on Christianity.
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Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● Pagina’s 16 ● ISBN 9781912475919 ● Bestandsgrootte 0.3 MB ● Vertaler Mitchell Abidor ● Uitgeverij ERIS ● Stad London ● Land GB ● Gepubliceerd 2022 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 8695093 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Sociale DRM
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